welcome back to everyday stoic today we
read quotes from great thinkers from
people like Cara Cletus Plutarch Klee
Anthes and many more time is the most
valuable thing that a man can spend
Diogenes know how to listen and you will
profit even from those who talk badly
Plutarch
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without training they lack knowledge
without knowledge they lack confidence
without confidence they lacked victory
Julius Caesar
one original thought is worth a thousand
- quoting x' Diogenes
the content of your character is your
choice day by day what you choose what
you think and what you do is who you
become Heraclitus
we have two ears and only one Tom in
order that we may hear more and speak
less diogenes experience is a teacher of
all things Julius Caesar day by day what
you do is who you become Heraclitus
we are more curious about the meaning of
dreams than about the things we see when
awake
Diogenes I don't need a friend who
changes when I change and who nods when
I nod my shadow does that much better
blue talk you will earn the respect of
all if you begin by earning the respect
of yourself don't expect encourage good
deeds in people conscious of your own
misdeeds
Miuccia news Rufus wealth is able to buy
the pleasure of eating drinking and of
essential pursuits
yet can never afford a cheerful spirit
or freedom from sorrow you so News Rufus
there is nothing permanent except change
Heraclitus
if we were to measure what is good by
how much pleasure it brings nothing
would be better than self-control if we
were to measure what is to be avoided by
its pain nothing would be more painful
than the lack of self-control mu so news
Rufus the mind is not a vessel to be
filled but a fire to be kindled Plutarch
the fate guide the person who accepts
them and hinder the person who resists
them
Cleon sees in the end when it's all over
all that matters is what you've done
Alexander the Great
what we achieve inwardly will change out
a reality Plutarch
need me Zeus and you fate wherever you
have assigned me I shall follow without
hesitation but even if I am disobedient
and do not wish to I shall follow no
less surely clear anthias
by silence I hear other men's
imperfections and conceal my own xenoa
Valley practice the master of all things
Augustus
bury my body and don't build any
monument keep my hands out so the people
know the one who won the world had
nothing in his hands when he died
Alexander the Great
avoid doing what you would blame others
for doing fail ease
most people including ourselves live in
a world of relative ignorance we are
even constable with that ignorance
because it is all we know when we first
start facing truth the process may be
frightening and many people run back to
their old lives but if you continue to
seek truth you will eventually be able
to handle it better in fact you want
more it's true
that many people around you now may
think you are weird or even a danger to
society
you don't care once you've tasted the
truth you won't ever want to go back to
being ignorant Socrates
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our sensors for ignorant of reality
falsely tells us that what appears to be
is fear false evidence appearing real
plutarch
good character is not formed in a week
or a month it is created little by
little day by day protracted and patient
efforts is needed to develop good
character
Heraclitus
there is nothing impossible to him who
will try Alexander the Great
if you want rainbow you have to deal
with the rain Augustus
be kind for everyone you meet is
fighting a great battle filo of
Alexandria
big results required big ambitions
Heraclitus the body is the souls house
shouldn't we therefore take care of our
house so it doesn't fall to ruin filo of
alexandria with the right attitude
self-imposed limitations vanish
Alexander the Great
we begin to lose our hesitation to do
amol things when we lose our hesitation
to speak of them mutinies Rufus what
good are gilded rooms or precious stones
fitted on the floor inlaid in the wors
carried from great distances at great
expense these things are pointless and
unnecessary without them isn't it
possible to live healthy aren't they a
source of constant trouble don't they
cost vast sums of money that free public
and private charity may have benefited
many News only Rufus
for what does the man who accepts insult
do that is wrong it is the doer of the
wrong who puts himself to shame the
sensible man wouldn't go to the law
since he wouldn't ever consider that he
had been insulted besides to be annoyed
or angered about such things would be
petty
instead easily and silently bear what
has happened since this is appropriate
to those whose purpose is to be
noble-minded mutinies Rufus
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